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President Pezeshkian called it a "barbaric act." He was right. But barbarism, in war, is not the exception. It is the nature of the thing. And this war—whatever its architects intended, whatever they promised about regime change and a better future—has only just begun.

The Strait of Hormuz was closed. Oil prices were climbing. And 201 families were planning funerals. The school in Minab was not a military target. The 85 girls who died there were not Revolutionary Guards. They were children in a classroom when the walls collapsed.

# 201 Dead, Hormuz Closed, and a Question Nobody's Asking The smoke was still rising over Tehran when the numbers started coming in.